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...Such attitudes were reflected in the fact that, though Pride Parade 2008 turned out to be a success in many ways, planning the event was no easy matter. "While organizing the parade, we encountered many obstacles from the government, the police and a bus company," said Wai-Wai Yeo, a member of the Hong Kong Pride 2008 Organizing Committee. The local company Citybus refused to rent a double-decker to organizers of the city's parade because of concerns about its image. "This was a blatant act of discrimination, especially seeing the fact that this is a legal parade...
...leave U.S. forces in Afghanistan for quite some time to come. The economy of impoverished Afghanistan is unlikely, for the foreseeable future, to be able to sustain an army big enough to guarantee the country's security. And that's just one of several thorny issues likely to make success in Afghanistan harder to achieve than in Iraq - unless the U.S. scales back its ambitious goals for the country. Such a rethink may be in the cards, U.S. military officers say, as internal U.S. reviews and President-elect Barack Obama give the seven-year war a fresh look...
Flores acknowledged Sundquist’s success with deans...
Administrators who have worked with Sundquist emphasized their close relationship as a reason for his success over the past year...
...Except for ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’—we would steal our girlfriends’ copies.” Although she acknowledged the difficulty of getting people to attend a public event devoted to talking about sex, Lescroart said she considered the event a success. “It’s the kind of thing that people would love to be dragged to, but might not want to come on their own,” she said. “But when they do come, they learn about options they didn?...